Table 4 Total Hospital Costsa ($) by 30-day readmission status, median (IQR).

From: Thirty-day readmission rates, trends and its impact on liver transplantation recipients: a national analysis

Cost time period

Readmission within 30 days of index discharge

(n = 7675; 30.6%)

No Readmission within 30 days of index discharge

(n = 17,379; 69.4%)

Effect size

p value

Index admission

98,067 (71,531–143,466)b

87,980 (66,159–134,758)b

0.10

< 0.001

First readmission within 30 days

9960 (5352–21,242)

0

n/a

n/a

All readmissions within 30 days

12,714 (6412–28,518)

0

n/a

n/a

Total calendar year (Index and all readmissions)

132,119 (92,255–209,939)b

93,577 (68,635–146,823)b

0.35

< 0.001

  1. aAdjusted for inflation based on Personal Health Care (Hospital care) Price Indices from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS); costs adjusted to 2014 basis.
  2. bn = 7552 non-missing (98.4%).
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